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Condition: crisp impression trimmed within the platemark with
the publisher’s initials removed and re-margined on a support sheet. The sheet
is mottled in colour and the edges of the print have been restored to make the
uneven trimming of the sheet less distracting, otherwise, there are no tears,
holes, folds, abrasions or foxing.

I am selling this finely executed engraving from the Renaissance
era—interestingly it was executed around sixty years after Michelangelo
completed his fresco from which this study is a detail—for AU$170 (currently
US$138.05/EUR111.06/GBP97.53 at the time of posting this listing). Postage for
this print is extra and will be the actual/true cost of shipping.

If you are interested in acquiring this early and very rare study,
please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal
invoice to make the payment easy.

This print has been sold

Diane DeGrazia Bohlin (1980) in the TIB catalogue raisonné lists this print as executed by Agostino Carracci
after Michelangelo whereas the British Museum proposes that Carracci may have
been the intermediary draughtsman with Luca Ciamberlano (aka Lucas de Urbino) (fl.1599–­1641)
as the true engraver. If this were an engraving by Ciamberlano then this would help
to narrow the attribution of its dates of execution from what is currently 1597 to 1629
(proposed by the British Museum) to 1597 to 1614. The reason for this narrowing
of dates is simply because this print was published by Pietro
Stefanoni (c1557–1642) and after 1614 Ciamberlano published his own prints and
so it is very likely to have been executed prior to 1614 (Ciamberlano’s dates as an active
published are discussed in M Bury’s (2001), “The Print in Italy 1550–1625”,
British Museum, London, p. 224).